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The Pan African Film Festival has long been one of L.A.'s most important festivals, showcasing films from the African diaspora that other fests ignore or shortchange. This year, however, the festival has a heightened relevance, as a...

South L.A. rugby program ICEF Rugby took its first international trip to compete in Hong Kong in 2006, and film and T.V. crews have been scouting its two high school teams ever since. First there was the Academy award-winning docume...

There's a visually gorgeous club scene in the film La Playa D.C. (a Brazil/Colombia/France co-production), in which Afro-Colombian teenager Tomas Diaz dances in the middle of a writhing mass of bodies, the crowd moving to a throttli...